(Boise, Idaho) September 12, 2016 — TWENTY16 Ridebiker announces the signing of 2016 Canadian National Road Champion Annie Foreman. Foreman-Mackey, a native to Kingston, Ontario soloed to victory at the Canadian National Road Championships this past June grabbing her nation’s coveted road racing title. The first event with TWENTY16 Ridebiker for Foreman-Mackey is the team time trial camp in Boise Idaho this month, where the team is preparing for UCI World Championships in October.
“I am beyond excited to be joining TWENTY16 Ridebiker UCI Pro Team. I am looking forward to transferring the skills I have learned as a team pursuit rider with the Canadian team to the road TTT event, something I have had an eye on for a while now. TWENTY16 has proven that they are a force to be reckoned with, and I am honored to be joining this group of women leading into the World Championships,” said Foreman-Mackey.
Foreman-Mackey was named to the Canadian Rio team as an alternate in the team pursuit after her performances in the 2016 track world cup series and her bronze medal in the 2016 world championships I individual pursuit. Mackey moves over to TWENTY16 Ridebiker from Canadian domestic development team The Cyclery Opus.
“I am eager to continue my development as a road and track athlete over the next few years and take on new challenges. The Cyclery-Opus has created a fantastic learning environment over the past couple years, and I am deeply thankful for everything that they have done to help me grow. Moving to TWENTY16 Ridebiker is a great next step and I can not wait to see what is in store for the rest of 2016 and beyond,” Foreman-Mackey added.
Foreman-Mackey bolsters the 2017 squad with powerful speed, experience at world level on track and rider professionalism with a high level of team tactics.
“Annie comes to the team highly recommended. I love working with the multi-disciplined athlete, over the years we have been able to create a program that works well for both high performance road and high performance track. Annie has been focused on track but has an endurance engine that we are excited to develop for time trial,” said Nicola Cranmer, General Manager.
Off the bike, Annie is a passionate self-proclaimed “public health nerd”, who strives to address health inequities and advocate for socially responsible health policy decisions. She is currently riding her way through a Masters of Public Health at University of Toronto. TheTWENTY16 Ridebiker program is an advocate for educational development of its riders and establishing a life balance, both of which Foreman-Mackey finds beneficial to her cycling career.
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About TWENTY16 Ridebiker
When the team was formed in 2005, TWENTY12 had a definite goal of taking athletes to the 2012 London Olympics. London resulted in 2 Olympic medals; gold and silver, the only U.S based road program to achieve this. The team replicated its success with a gold and silver in Rio 2016 Olympics. Youth cycling is an important component to the program, supporting 14 of the top juniors in the nation ranging in ages 11-18. These young women learn essential skills such as teamwork, sacrifice and commitment that they can carry over to the work place if a professional athletic career is not pursued. In 2001 TWENTY16 was the first American team to recruit a Para-Cycling athlete to the roster of a professional squad and is the only professional team to have an integrated junior program.
About the Ride 4 Education Scholarship Program
The Ride 4 Education program, co-founded by Barry Bonds, TWENTY16 General Manager Nicola Cranmer and Team Director Mari Holden began in 2015. The program offers scholarships to members of the TWENTY16 junior development program. TWENTY16 has successfully developed junior athletes and connected them with colleges as they graduate from high school. TWENTY16 then enables these athletes to race with the development and professional race programs while attending college and fulfilling collegiate academic and race obligations. The ethos of the Ride 4 Education Program aligns with the education mission of the TWENTY16 program – allowing the athletes to obtain the best education possible for life after cycling.
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